परिचय
जन्म : 6 मार्च 1927, कोलंबिया
भाषा : स्पेनिशविधाएँ : उपन्यास, कहानी, संस्मरण, पटकथा लेखन मुख्य कृतियाँ
उपन्यास : In Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, love in the Time of Cholera, The General in His Labyrinth, Of Love and Other Demons
लघु उपन्यास : Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death, Foretold, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
कहानी संग्रह : Eyes of a Blue Dog, Big Mama's Funeral, The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother, Collected Stories, Strange Pilgrims
अन्य : The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, The Solitude of Latin America, The Fragrance of Guava (with Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza), Clandestine in Chile News of a Kidnapping, A Country for Children, Living to Tell the Tale
सम्मान
नोबेल पुरस्कार (1982)
निधन
17 अप्रैल 2014, मेक्सिको